2015/11/30 by T. Lancaster, F. Xiao, Z. Salman +9 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.str-el
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.93.140412
published as Phys. Rev. B 93, 140412 (2016) · 5 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2016/04/26 · arxiv updated 2016/05/04
We present the results of transverse-field muon-spin rotation measurements on an epitaxially grown 40 nm-thick film of MnSi on Si(111) in the region of the field-temperature phase diagram where a skyrmion phase has been observed in the bulk. We identify changes in the quasistatic magnetic field distribution sampled by the muon, along with evidence for magnetic transitions around T≈ 40 K and 30 K. Our results suggest that the cone phase is not the only magnetic texture realized in film samples for out-of-plane fields.